[QC102]

This was became a "spare" FC I got in because I thought it would save space on  the deck of a 450 frame. Anyway.. reading through  the forum I came across a Taulabs reference and  like an idiot - I  just tried flashing the firmware  - to check out  their GCS - ( boredom till the UK premier league start up!)
I ended up with a dead Atom,  nothing works - no rescue - all the  options are greyed out  and  it will not connect - nothing except a green led.
The Upgrade and Upgrade and Erase buttons start of... but time out.

Can it rescued of better off in  the trash bin?

TIA

[f5soh]

If the blue led do not flash your board do not have bootloader or firmware running.

Try a last rescue:
- Disconnect board
- Hit Rescue
- Connect board

If there is a timeout, here is two options for bootloader/firmware recovery:

using a StLink:
https://librepilot.atlassian.net/wiki/display/LPDOC/Recover+board+using+ST-Link

using a FTDI:
http://www.southquay3d.com/index.php?route=news/article&news_id=9

[QC102]

Thanks for that - will look at the options...  I  have an FTDI 132  will that be OK?

[Hoooody]

Hi, FWIW the only solution that seemed to work on my cc3d was this video, not sure if the atom works the same?

[QC102]

Thanks for  taking time to reply... but the Atom is dead!   Cannot activate Rescue or  in fact anything now!  Tried everything that is shown in  the many threads - the online manual.  But it cost around au$15 or so... so I ordered another and can start again.   
It been a bad week - also  fried a new unused  - just  setting up Revo FC - and  that's in the trash now also.

[TheOtherCliff]

If the GCS can't flash it, the last resort is using the system boot loader.
Search forum for SBL.